Oh my God.  The humanity.  The humanity.

-Patrick R. Sweeney
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Scharff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Exchange Discussions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, February 25, 2003 8:17 PM
Subject: Re: Exchange server level encryption-OT


> What if the shipping company uses hydrogen fuel cells?
>
> On 2/25/03 18:39, "Patrick R. Sweeney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
>
> HIPAA does provide detail for securing non-electronic transmission of
> Personal information.  Basically -- it has to be sealed and trackable
> (Rewgistered mail, UPS, FedEx, etc.)
>
> There is information and instruction available at http://www.hipaa.org and
> http://www.ahima.org.  AHIMA also provides a series of online classes for
> $1100 which provide a form of individual IT HIPAA accreditation.
>
> -Patrick R. Sweeney
> http://boston.craigslist.org/bos/res/8484283.html
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Chris Scharff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "Exchange Discussions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Tuesday, February 25, 2003 7:09 PM
> Subject: Re: Exchange server level encryption-OT
>
>
> > Not an expert on the science behind this essay
> > http://tnr.com/docprint.mhtml?i=20030224=easterbrook022403
> <http://tnr.com/docprint.mhtml?i=20030224&s=easterbrook022403> , but the
> idea
> > of needing to use nuclear power plants to product the levels of hydrogen
> > needed for 'clean fuel cells' seems to make the "water is the only
> > byproduct" argument a bit disingenuous. Course as I said, I'm not an
> expert
> > on the subject so I'm certainly open to knowing where the levels of
> hydrogen
> > needed for such a thing would come from.
> >
> > Perhaps instead of replacing HIPPA, those companies subject to its
> > regulations need to rethink how and why patient data would need to leave
> > their environment and design secure systems (which e-mail aint) to
> > facilitate that transmittal. Course the reality is companies aren't
really
>
> > interested in protecting patient data, just in being compliant with the
> > various regulatory agencies which govern them. So, following the
cheapest
> > route to compliance they encounter the reality that cheap aint easy.
> >
> > On 2/25/03 16:06, "Christopher Hummert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > Ok I knew I shouldn't have used that example, cause I knew somewhere we
> > were going to get into a debate about it. In addition I should have said
> > Hydrogen Fuel Cells which is what I was thinking of when I made the
> > statement. As far as the pollution:
> >
> > Fuel cells efficiently convert hydrogen fuel and oxygen from the air
> > into electricity. Hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicles (HFCEVs) emit
> > only water vapor from their exhaust pipes. Demonstrations of HFCEVs have
> > been successful and this technology is expected to displace internal
> > combustion engines in the 21st Century.
> >
> > Which I got from pretty much the first thing I could google up here:
> > http://www.hydrogencomponents.com/altfuel.html
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mellott, Bill
> > Sent: Tuesday, February 25, 2003 2:02 PM
> > To: Exchange Discussions
> > Subject: RE: Exchange server level encryption-OT
> >
> >
> > Chris Im curious how do you figure this statement? Next thing you'll
> > drag in Hybrids ...
> >
> > "It's the same problem you have with cars
> > today. Gasoline engines produce pollution, so to change this we could
> > move to hydrogen engines which are pollution free. But the
> > infrastructure isn't there."
> >
> > While I agree hydrogen engines maybe more friendly...they do produce
> > pollution AND the infrastructure you correctly point out which is not
> > there really WILL in fact produce pollution to make the pieces/stuff
> > required for the "cleaner part".
> >
> > Let me ask this..IF say you put a refrigerator in a  "sealed"
> > room...plug it in...leave the Fridge door open....what happens in the
> > room?
> >
> > there no free lunch...just more healthy...
> > ;-)
> >
> > bill
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Christopher Hummert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Sent: Tuesday, February 25, 2003 4:42 PM
> > To: Exchange Discussions
> > Subject: RE: Exchange server level encryption
> >
> >
> > Except that none of our clients have heard about PGP. That's one of the
> > problems with HIPPA, the solutions they want don't exist for a device
> > that was developed back in the 60's (I think I got the time right, I'm
> > not going to check though). It's the same problem you have with cars
> > today. Gasoline engines produce pollution, so to change this we could
> > move to hydrogen engines which are pollution free. But the
> > infrastructure isn't there. Same thing with e-mail and encryption.
> > That's one of the reasons HIPPA deadlines keeps getting pushed back.
> >
> > Then with a solution like PGP you have to teach the users how to use it.
> > That's a nightmare that I don't ever want to repeat again. Hell half of
> > the users I taught have a hard time figuring out what the "start button"
> > is, and it's right there in front of their face.
> >
> > The big problem with HIPPA was that it was designed by bureaucrats (who
> > BTW were probably the same users that have a hard time with the start
> > button thing) that wanted to do something to protect the people that
> > vote for them. Except there wasn't a major problem to begin with. Sure
> > there were a few slight mishaps here and there, but the industry was
> > doing a fine job of learning from those mistakes and creating new
> > solutions to prevent those from happening again.
> >
> > In addition to the design problems with HIPPA, you have the fact that
> > it's become so bloated that no one knows exactly what it is or what you
> > need to do. While you run into some so called "HIPPA expert" that says
> > you need to do one thing, you can always find another that says you
> > don't need to do that.
> >
> > Flat out HIPPA needs to go, and be replaced by something that's a little
> > more well thought out.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Erik Sojka
> > Sent: Tuesday, February 25, 2003 1:25 PM
> > To: Exchange Discussions
> > Subject: RE: Exchange server level encryption
> >
> >
> > Yup.  But PGP is one of the most widely deployed encryption packages and
> > has software for various client and server packages.
> >
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Erick Thompson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > Sent: Tuesday, February 25, 2003 4:19 PM
> > > To: Exchange Discussions
> > > Subject: Re: Exchange server level encryption
> > >
> > >
> > > Doesn't PGP suffer from the same problem, where the recipients need to
> >
> > > have a PGP key set up?
> > >
> > > Erick
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Ken Cornetet" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > To: "Exchange Discussions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > Sent: Tuesday, February 25, 2003 12:38 PM
> > > Subject: RE: Exchange server level encryption
> > >
> > >
> > > I'll assume you are talking about SMIME encryption here. What you want
> >
> > > to do is not possible in the general sense. You need the recipient's
> > > public key in order to encrypt their mail. You would have to have a
> > > predefined list of all possible recipients and their public keys. Even
> >
> > > if you had this list, I know of no products that implement this (but
> > > then again, I've never looked)
> > >
> > > You could probably rig something up using PGP on a unix box as an
> > > outbound gateway. But then all your recipients would need PGP to read
> > > the mail.
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Hutchins, Mike [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > Sent: Tuesday, February 25, 2003 3:25 PM
> > > To: Exchange Discussions
> > > Subject: Exchange server level encryption
> > >
> > >
> > > Ok, my eyes are going crossed.
> > > I have been trying to figure out a decent way to encrypt all outbound
> > > email from our company. This is for compliance with HIPAA. Does anyone
> >
> > > happen to have any ideas?
> > >
> > > I have googled and haven't found a product that looks right. I have
> > > searched for "exchange 2000 encryption", "email encryption", etc.
> > > Help?
> > >
> > > TIA
> > >
> > > Mike
> >
> >
> >
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